GIESEN Non-Alcoholic Wines
Marlborough, New Zealand
Giesen is a family-owned, family operated winery that was founded by three brothers—Theo, Alex, and Marcel. The three sons of a stonemason were planning to follow the family enterprise in Germany. However, on a whim (and because it reminded them of home) in 1981, while they were travelling the world, Theo and Alex Giesen purchased land and planted a vineyard just outside Christchurch. At the time it was the world’s southern-most vineyard.
Younger brother Marcel took himself to winemaking school and four years later joined Theo and Alex to start making wine from their vineyard.
From that first vintage in 1984, Giesen made Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc and it was an instant hit. At the time Marlborough was little known. However, drawing on their German heritage the three brothers recognised that cool-climate winegrowing created wines with flavour. Today they’re the proprietors of 13 vineyards across the Wairau Valley subregion of Marlborough.
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Giesen 0% Non-Alcohoic Wines
We want our non-alcoholic options to give you everything you’d expect from a premium New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc. So we go through the entire winemaking process, before we gently remove the alcohol.
Using innovative spinning cone technology popular in perfume-making, we separate the fragrance and alcohol from the wine. This lets us carefully collect the delicate aroma you know and love from Sauvignon Blanc. This advanced form of distillation allows us to handle the wine gently, maintaining the integrity of our distinctive flavour palate and texture.
Once the alcohol has been removed, we re-add the delicately distilled aroma to the body of the wine and conduct vigorous taste-testing to ensure the final product has great mouth-feel and flavour. It’s trickier than it sounds, but our winemakers have done the hard yards to make sure that drinking it will be easy.